Chris Abani

Zusatztext

This is the first full-length book on the work of global Igbo writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abanis fiction books, the two novellas<i>Becoming Abigail</i> (2006) and<i>Song for Night</i> (2007), the three novels<i>GraceLand</i> (2004),<i>The Virgin of Flames</i> (2007), and<i>The Secret History of Las Vegas</i>(2014), which are read against the grain of Abanis most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections, this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century, in the debate about human rights, and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.

Autorenportrait

<p>Annalisa Oboe is Full Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial studies at the University of Padua, Italy<br><br>Elisa Bordin is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy</p>

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